On 2016/02/11 13:34, Todd C. Miller wrote:
> On Thu, 11 Feb 2016 10:39:53 +0000, Stuart Henderson wrote:
> 
> > I updated some firewalls to -current yesterday (from somewhere between
> > 5.6 and 5.7) and am now seeing a lot of "arp: attempt to add entry"
> > logged, see below. (Looks like someone has put a machine on the wrong
> > vlan and it's sending out broadcast arp replies for conflict detection
> > which are triggering the logs, anyway that's a different problem).
> > 
> > Some of the lines in the logged file get split in half. I'm thinking
> > this probably warrants further investigation as it could cause log
> > monitoring programs to not notice certain problems..
> 
> That's really weird.  The /dev/klog fd in syslogd isn't opened
> non-blocking and from what I understand, log messages from the
> kernel shouldn't be seen from userland until logwakeup() is called
> at the end up the message.
> 
> Can you try disabling kqueue in syslogd by setting EVENT_NOKQUEUE=1
> and see if the behavior changes?

It seems like it is probably happening less often, but it hasn't
stopped completely.

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